Uranium, which can harm human health, was detected in 63% of drinking water samples collected over a decade, with…
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Researchers are using a variety of methods to determine the provenance of the radioactive cubes.
A new test developed by scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico can potentially alter what we…
On the latest episode of Manhattan, the physicists assigned to developing the gun model design for the atomic bomb…
A newly declassified document obtained by a nuclear historian reveals that the Manhattan Project scientists who…
Today the Senate passed a bill that will create three National Parks sites to commemorate the Manhattan Project, the…
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Bonhams auction house is gearing up for a big "History of Science" sale on October 22. Among the many intriguing…
The World War II program to develop an atomic bomb was the largest secret project ever undertaken by the U.S.…
Here's a collection of rare historical photos from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town established by the Army Corps of…
During the 1940s, the denizens of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, worked for the Manhattan Project, developing atomic weapons…
The Department Of Energy posted 21 photos onto its Flickr page a few weeks ago about Chicago Pile-1, the site of the…
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What would you do if your boss handed you a mysterious box and said that if anything weird started happening with…
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The U.S. Dept. of Energy has big plans. They want batteries that are five times more powerful than what we've got…
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Klaus Fuchs was just one of the many eccentrics chosen to work on the Manhattan Project. People remembered him as…
In 1942, the US government acquired the town of Oak Ridge in eastern Tennessee. From then on, Oak Ridge was just…
When we reflect on iconic images of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and their nuclear devastation, one of the first to come to…
The Manhattan Project is among the most significant events in world history. There were those who came and went in…
When the nuclear bomb was being developed, no detonator precise or reliable enough to set it off existed. So,…
The Roswell crash is the Holy Grail of American conspiracy-theory folklore, but what if the little grey men were…
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John Coster-Mullen drives trucks for a living in Wisconsin. His high school teacher had been a scientist on the…
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